Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil (3 November 1938 – 15 December 2010) was a French film director, actor, and novelist best known for his films in the fantastique genre such as the vampire film Le Viol du Vampire (1968) and the first French gore film Les Raisins de la Mort (1978). Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Rollin, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Orchestrator of Storms: The Fantastique World of Jean Rollin
2022
as Self (archive footage)
The story of French filmmaker Jean Rollin (1938-2010), one of the most singular voices of European cult cinema, deeply misunderstood and widely misrep...

The Story of French Fantasy Cinema
2019
as Self (archive footage)
The story of the French fantasy cinema from Méliès to Raw.

Jean Rollin: The Stray Dreamer
2011
as Himself
Who is Jean Rollin? A man who has spent his childhood in the middle of some of the greatest intellectuals of the twentieth century. An artist who has...
Rencontre avec Jean Rollin et Jean-Pierre Bouyxou à la boutique Hors-Circuits
2011
as Self
A discussion between Jean Rollin and Jean-Pierre Bouyxou

The Mask of Medusa
2009
Director
The film is a modern-day telling of the Greek mythological tale of the Gorgon and was inspired by the 1964 classic Hammer Horror film of the same name...

The Night of the Clocks
2007
Director, Writer
A young woman inherits the house of Jean Michel but she is haunted by strange dreams and numbers. She has no idea that this is the beginning of the 't...

Dracula's Fiancée
2002
Director
A professor and his protege's search for Dracula leads them to a group of nuns who have held a young woman captive, so she can be married off the vamp...
Bloody Lips & Iron Roses: The Work of Jean Rollin
2002
as Self

Two Orphan Vampires
1997
Screenplay, Novel, Director
A pair of teenage girls, who are blind by day, but when the sun goes down, they roam the streets to quench their thirst for blood.

Matilda's Perfume
1995
Writer, Director
We see a Rolls-Royce ride into the country, with a young orphan named Eva, accompanied by her uncle and aunt. They go to the man, she just married, bu...

Dinosaur From The Deep
1993
as Professeur Nolan
Year 2004. Not knowing how to run an abominable criminal recidivist while the death penalty has been abolished, FBI experts and lawyers condemned the ...

Killing Car
1993
Director
Two cops try to stop a mysterious serial killer dubbed "Car Woman" after the toy car she always leaves next to her victims in this surreal slasher.

Alien Platoon
1992
as Maj. Taylor
Major Taylor creates a super-soldier who goes rogue due to his insatiable lust for 'girls' and runs amok in the French countryside.

Trepanator
1992
as Dr. Roll
Dr. Herbert East is working in his uncle's clinic and experimenting with brain transplants.
In Pursuit of Barbara
1991
In 1990, Jean Rollin was hired to transform some footage Jesús Franco had shot in 1971 into a new jungle adventure film. Rollin gave up after a few da...
In Pursuit of Barbara
1991
Director
In 1990, Jean Rollin was hired to transform some footage Jesús Franco had shot in 1971 into a new jungle adventure film. Rollin gave up after a few da...

Lost in New York
1989
Director, Writer
A dreamy film in which two women are transported from a beach in France to New York City. Separated and lost, they frantically search for one another.

Emmanuelle 6
1988
Director, Writer
Journey with Emmanuelle and the world's most excuisite models deep into the Venezuelan Amazon jungle to the heart of paradise. Beauty can be dangerous...

Ne prends pas les poulets pour des pigeons
1985
Director
Divisional Inspector Bricot sends two detectives to the French Riviera to dismantle a drug deal in a carnival mask factory. However, knowing the low e...

Sidewalks of Bangkok
1984
Director
Adventure, crime and mystery combine with comic book dialogue and some sadistic sex for good measure. Playfully perverse, pistol-packing fun with Yoko...

Folies anales
1983
Director
Two gangsters are playing poker. It's a big bet, the nightclub belongs to one of the two. When one of the gangsters finds out he's being cheated on by...

The Living Dead Girl
1982
Director, Writer
A toxic spill revives a beautiful, dead heiress who, with the help of her childhood friend, must quench her insatiable thirst for blood.

Dreams of the sexes
1982
Director

The Escapees
1981
as A client at Vénus club (uncredited)
On the run from an asylum for the insane, two girls embark on a surreal journey with a group of traveling erotic dancers.

The Escapees
1981
Director, Screenplay
On the run from an asylum for the insane, two girls embark on a surreal journey with a group of traveling erotic dancers.

Zombie Lake
1981
as Inspector Spitz
In a small village, somewhere in France, German soldiers, killed and thrown into the lake by the Resistance during WWII, come back.

Zombie Lake
1981
Director
In a small village, somewhere in France, German soldiers, killed and thrown into the lake by the Resistance during WWII, come back.

The Night of the Hunted
1980
Director, Screenplay
A woman is taken to a mysterious clinic whose patients have a mental disorder in which their memories and identities are disintegrating as a result of...

Clinique pour soins très spéciaux
1980

L'Infirmière au minou rasé
1980

Vibrations sexuelles
1979
Director
Alban has lost the lust for love. A female psychiatrist helps him to find the meaning of life and sex once more.

Fascination
1979
Director, Screenplay
A runaway criminal breaks into an eerie chateau, taking its two frightened chambermaids hostage. As night falls, a group of mysterious aristocratic wo...

Gamines en chaleur
1979
Director
Monique is a horny but frustrated virgin teenager living with her aunt and uncle. The aunt is very puritanical or pretends to be. The maid, Yvette, sy...

Lèvres gloutonnes
1978

Lèvres entrouvertes
1978
Director

Par devant par derrière
1978
as Invité
A young girl arrives unannounced at his uncle to celebrate her birthday, as he is not free, she holds a very special evening with friends of his uncle...

Par devant par derrière
1978
Director
A young girl arrives unannounced at his uncle to celebrate her birthday, as he is not free, she holds a very special evening with friends of his uncle...

Disco Sex
1978
as Sound Engineer
A disco band shows up at a studio to make a new album, but they are badly mobbed by a bunch of female groupies. A big orgy breaks out that postpones t...

Disco Sex
1978
Director
A disco band shows up at a studio to make a new album, but they are badly mobbed by a bunch of female groupies. A big orgy breaks out that postpones t...

The Grapes of Death
1978
as The winemaker
A young woman discovers that the pesticide being sprayed on vineyards is turning people into murderous lunatics.

The Grapes of Death
1978
Screenplay, Director, Story
A young woman discovers that the pesticide being sprayed on vineyards is turning people into murderous lunatics.

Remplissez-moi... les 3 trous
1978
Director, Writer
Barbara Moose lounges by the pool waiting for the guests to arrive for a party.

Wünsche und Perversionen
1977
Director
An inflexible father does not want his daughter to marry, at least not with the man she has chosen. After he has been blackmailed with lurid photos th...

Positions danoises
1977
Director, Writer
Mirna is learning a script when Willy arrives home. Meanwhile, other couples come to search for the manuscript.

Saute-moi dessus
1977
Director

Apothéose porno
1976
Director

Amours collectives
1976
as Mike Gentle - the vampire
Amours Collectives starts out as libertarian porn, but ends up more like direct cinema, in which the film itself functions as its own making-of! Witty...

Amours collectives
1976
Writer
Amours Collectives starts out as libertarian porn, but ends up more like direct cinema, in which the film itself functions as its own making-of! Witty...

The Countess X
1976
Director
A group of friends come together to have a party, but in the woods near the castle a kleptomaniac is hiding and waiting to take advance of the partygo...

Douces pénétrations
1976
Director, Writer

Indécences
1975
Producer
Two young couples live together in a house, and face a miserable holiday, because they are broke. The girls then have the bright idea to turn their ho...

Lips of Blood
1975
as Cemetery Guard
Frédéric sees a photograph of a ruined seaside castle, which triggers a strange childhood memory. He then goes on a strange quest, aided by four femal...

Lips of Blood
1975
Writer, Director
Frédéric sees a photograph of a ruined seaside castle, which triggers a strange childhood memory. He then goes on a strange quest, aided by four femal...

Hard Penetration
1975
Director
Servien and Marbeuf are two crooks who try to get some hired girls to keep a rich prince busy whilst they want to steal his jewels.

The Seduction of Amy
1975
as Rapist
An evil count lures beautiful women to his castle, there to imprison them in his torture chamber for his amusement.

The Seduction of Amy
1975
Director, Screenplay
An evil count lures beautiful women to his castle, there to imprison them in his torture chamber for his amusement.

The Demoniacs
1974
Director, Writer
A gang of pirates rape the two sole survivors of a ship wreck. The violated girls are rescued by the strange inhabitants of a supposedly haunted islan...

Fly Me the French Way
1974
Director, Writer, Producer
Valerie watches over her cousin's place while he's away for six months. She spends her first night there reading, playing records, and calling her gir...

Schoolgirl Hitchhikers
1973
as Man in red Turtleneck
Two female hitchhikers get mixed up with a gang of thieves and their stolen jewelery.

Schoolgirl Hitchhikers
1973
Writer, Director
Two female hitchhikers get mixed up with a gang of thieves and their stolen jewelery.

The Iron Rose
1973
as The Prowler
A young couple out for a walk decide to take a stroll through a large cemetery. As darkness begins to fall they realize they can't find their way out,...

The Iron Rose
1973
Director, Writer
A young couple out for a walk decide to take a stroll through a large cemetery. As darkness begins to fall they realize they can't find their way out,...

Requiem for a Vampire
1971
Director, Writer
Two girls on the run get lost in the French countryside, and wind up in a haunted chateau occupied by an ailing vampire and his servants.

The Shiver of the Vampires
1971
Director, Writer
A young, honeymooning couple stop for the night at an ancient castle. Unbeknownst to them, the castle is home to a horde of vampires who have their ow...
La secte du diable
1971

The Nude Vampire
1970
Director, Writer
A young man falls in love with a beautiful woman being chased by sinister masked figures at night. He tries to track her down, and learns she's being ...

The Rape of the Vampire
1968
as Villager
After a psychoanalyst unsuccessfully tries to convince four sisters that they are not 200 year old vampires, the Queen of the Vampires promulgates the...

The Rape of the Vampire
1968
Producer, Director, Screenplay
After a psychoanalyst unsuccessfully tries to convince four sisters that they are not 200 year old vampires, the Queen of the Vampires promulgates the...

The Far Countries
1965
Director
A couple is lost in a town where everyone speaks some strange language, and they can't find their way out.

The Yellow Loves
1958
Director
Short film from French director Jean Rollin with poetry by Tristan Corbière's (1845-1875).

Paris ciné bis
N/A
as Self
Frédéric Charruault, loyal reader of Médusa Fanzine, had produced in 1994, a short documentary on the cinemas of Paris (the Brady, theTrianon, the Par...